Kelly Osbourne hopes she's 'embalmed' her body with drug, alcohol use so she can't get cancer
Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne's daughter Kelly noted cancer runs in her family
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Kelly Osbourne hopes her past drug and alcohol use has "embalmed" her body so she doesn't get cancer.
The 39-year-old TV personality revealed her family has a history of the often deadly disease, and she doesn't want to fall victim to the same fate.
"I’m hoping that I’ve embalmed myself, so I don’t ever get cancer," Osbourne seemingly joked during an episode of "The Osbournes Podcast." "I’m pickled from all the drugs and alcohol, for sure."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Jack Osbourne chimed in, "I don’t think it works that way. But I’m no doctor."
Jack Osbourne and Kelly Osbourne spoke about cancer on a recent episode of their family's podcast. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for dcp)
Kelly pointed out her mother, Sharon Osbourne, struggled with colorectal cancer in the 2000s.
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Sharon was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2002 and is now in remission. The TV star eventually underwent a double mastectomy after a test showed she had "the breast cancer gene."
Kelly Osbourne revealed she was worried about getting cancer after Sharon Osbourne was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2002. (Michael Kovac/Getty Images for EJAF)
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Osbourne struggled with substance abuse for years and has openly spoken about how she was introduced to opiates.
"I kept getting sick, and I had a really bad case of tonsillitis, they ended up having to give me some crazy surgery, and then after that, they gave me Vicodin," she said during an episode of "Red Table Talk." "And that was all I needed."
Kelly Osbourne was addicted to opiates at a young age. (David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
"I went from having every voice in my head being like, 'You're fat, you're ugly, you're not good enough, no one likes you, you don't deserve this, people only like you because of who your parents are.' And then all of a sudden, every single voice was silenced, and it felt like life gave me a hug."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Eventually, Osbourne moved on to different drugs, including heroin.
"I was like, 'Why am I so confident in all of this?' And then very quickly I went from Vicodin to Percocet, from Percocet to heroin eventually, because it was cheaper," she said.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Kelly Osbourne relapsed in 2021 after becoming sober in 2017. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)
Osbourne suffered a relapse in 2021 after four years of sobriety.
"This is a little hard for me to talk about, but I’ve always promised you that I will always be honest with you about where I’m at and what’s going on in my road to recovery," Osbourne admitted on her Instagram stories at the time. "I relapsed. Not proud of it. But I am back on track."
She first got sober in 2017.
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